{"id":31422,"date":"2024-03-13T04:13:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T22:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/perplexity-brings-yelp-data-to-its-chatbot\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T04:13:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T22:43:03","slug":"perplexity-brings-yelp-data-to-its-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/perplexity-brings-yelp-data-to-its-chatbot\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity brings Yelp data to its chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas tells The Verge <\/em>that many people are using chatbots like regular search engines. It makes sense to offer information on things they look for, like restaurants, directly from the source. So it\u2019s integrating Yelp\u2019s maps, reviews, and other details in responses when people ask for restaurant recommendations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cOur underlying motivation is that we started off as this tool that appealed to people doing fact checks and research. But research can be on anything, like what if you\u2019re a coffee addict, you\u2019d want to know where the good coffee shops are,\u201d says Srinivas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As The Verge<\/em>\u2019s David Pierce recently pointed out, how Perplexity mixes text and links when answering questions was already a selling point compared to other chatbots like Copilot, Gemini, or ChatGPT. Srinivas says that consideration is part of why the company eventually chose Yelp. Srinivas says Yelp\u2019s data allowed Perplexity to offer a variety of ways to provide answers, like adding maps, photos, or even quote reviews.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The responses include links to businesses’ Yelp pages so users can view more reviews or other details.\u00a0Perplexity did not disclose the financial details of the deal and says it will not use Yelp\u2019s data to train any model, as the company uses existing models like GPT and Claude 2 for the chatbot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The connection is part of Yelp\u2019s Fusion program licensing data to third parties, including BMW.\u00a0\u201cBy integrating our highly trusted and rich local data into Perplexity, we\u2019re able to provide their users with reliable local search results,\u201d says Chad Richard, SVP of business & corporate development at Yelp, in an email to The Verge<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Perplexity is the latest AI company to cut a deal for a source of continually refreshed, up-to-date information, though Srinivas points out it is not partnering with Yelp but rather licensing its data. Google will reportedly pay Reddit $60 million a year to access real-time data and use Reddit data to train its AI models. OpenAI signed agreements with news publishers like Axel Springer to get data for training.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Other chatbots can also suggest cafes and restaurants, but much of this data comes from information models learned from the internet, almost like it did the searching for users. Some chatbots benefit from having access to services that already aggregate information on businesses. Google\u2019s Gemini, for example, can give a list of restaurants when prompted complete with details like hours of operation, menus, and maps because it can pull from Google Maps. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Perplexity plans more integrations like this in the future, and it already works with the answer engine WolframAlpha for mathematical computations. Srinivas provided a few potential examples, like working providers of shopping data or financial data. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Perplexity\u2019s Yelp integration is also available on mobile.<\/em><\/figcaption>Image: Perplexity<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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